CYBERCRIME

New York: A hacking ring has stolen up to $1 billion from banks around the world in what would be one of the biggest banking breaches known, a cybersecurity firm says in a report scheduled to be delivered Monday.
The hackers have been active since at least the end of 2013...

Hyderabad: Cybercrime cases rose sharply under Cyberabad Police Commissionerate limits here during 2014 as compared to last year. A total of 256 cyber crime cases were reported this year as against 109 recorded in 2013, Cyberabad Police Commissioner CV Anand said at a press meet on Tuesday.
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New York/Boston: Your medical information is worth 10 times more than your credit card number on the black market.
Last month, the FBI warned healthcare providers to guard against cyber attacks after one of the largest US hospital operators, Community Health Systems, said Chinese hackers had broken into its computer...

New York: If you are perpetually online on Facebook and do respond to anonymous friends' requests without considering how they are connected with those sending the requests, beware of phishing attacks.
According to a new study by an Indianorigin researcher, habitual use of Facebook makes individuals susceptible to social media phishing...

New Delhi: A database containing about 4.93 million usernames and passwords of Google accounts was posted on a Russian Bitcoin security forum.
The user posting the data claimed that about 60% of the logins in the leak were active could be accessed successfully using the leaked credentials.
The same Google account password...

Jerusalem: Banking applications on Android phones are most vulnerable to cyber crime, the chief executive and cofounder of Russian antivirus software maker Kaspersky Lab said on Monday.
Eugene Kaspersky said 99 per cent of mobile attacks are towards Androidbased phones, since Apple has strict controls and does not allow thirdparty applications.
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The maker of the most popular computer operating system in the world is launching a new strategy against criminal hackers by bringing together security engineers, digital forensics experts and lawyers trained in fighting software pirates under one roof at its new Cybercrime Centre.
Microsoft Corp's expanded Digital Crimes Unit inside the...

Every time you log on to the Web, you are potentially exposing your digital information to many types of threats. At home, at work or when outside, you are vulnerable and your privacy and identity is at risk. The threat is not only from hackers, but also from your ISP...

Moscow: The Soviet Union disappeared from the map more than two decades ago. But online an 'evil empire' is thriving.
Security experts say the .su Internet suffix assigned to the USSR in 1990 has turned into a haven for hackers who've flocked to the defunct superpower's domain space to send spam...

New York: A bloodless bank heist that netted more than $45 million has left even cybercrime experts impressed by the technical sophistication, if not the virtue, of the con artists who pulled off a remarkable internationally organized attack.
"It was pretty ingenious," Pace University computer science professor Darren Hayes said Friday.
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New York: In one of the biggest ever bank heists, a global cyber crime ring stole $45 million from two Middle Eastern banks by hacking into credit card processing firms and withdrawing money from ATMs in 27 countries, US prosecutors said on Thursday.
The US Justice Department accused eight men of...

New Delhi: It's been a few days since the worst denialofservice attack in the internet's threedecade history. A 300gigabitpersecond torrent of traffic flooded the networks of Spamhaus, and the Internet's major switches in London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. It was like a million cars trying to get on to Mumbai's Sealink...

London: British Police closed their threeyear investigation into the theft of hundreds of climate science emails published to the Web, on Wednesday saying there was no hope of finding suspects.
The theft, dubbed "Climategate" by some, caught researchers at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit discussing ways to dodge...

Washington: Microsoft Corp claimed a victory in efforts to combat online banking fraud, saying it had confiscated several servers used to steal login names and passwords, disrupting some of the world's most sophisticated cybercrime rings.
The software maker said on Monday that its cybercrime investigation group also took legal and technical...

Tehran: Iranian authorities blocked a website hours after it was launched by the US State Department to be a "virtual embassy" reaching out to people in the Islamic Republic.
"In accordance with the cybercrime law, access to this website is not possible," read a notice to anyone inside Iran trying...

New Delhi: The government today said 386 'phishing' incidents were reported to the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTIn) between January and October this year. "There have been incidents reported to CERTIn by law enforcement agencies on the hacking of email accounts and posting of objectionable content, including videos, on...

Bangalore: A study by Symantec Corp, the maker of Norton computer security software, estimates the cost of global cybercrimes at $114 billion annually.
The Norton Cybercrime Report 2011 said 431 million adults were victims globally in the past year, with costs of cybercrime surpassing the combined global black market in marijuana,...

Washington: US and Romanian police have arrested more than 100 people in a yearlong effort to stop Internet fraud schemes that have cost Americans more than $100 million, the US Justice Department said on Friday.
Romanian police carried out 117 raids on Friday, the Justice Department said. They arrested 90 people...

New York: Here is a timeline of some attacks claimed by hacking group LulzSec since early May.
The group knocks websites offline by overwhelming them with Internet traffic in what are known as denial of service attacks. LulzSec also uses a variety of hacking attacks to break into computer networks and...

London: The rogue hackers behind brazen cyber attacks are clever online technicians but have a critical human frailty petulant personalities prone to infighting that may spell disaster for their raids on spies, banks and companies.
At least that's the hope among state cyber sleuths racing to track down the Lulz...

Canberra: Australia's government unveiled legislation on Wednesday to crack down on cybercrime in the wake of recent cyber attacks on multinational companies and institutions, from Google to the International Monetary Fund and the US Senate.
Cybercrime was a growing threat to individuals, businesses and governments, AttorneyGeneral Robert McClelland said, with the...

New Delhi: Cybercriminals are like terrorists. They prefer to target the most high profile and frequented places. And Facebook is the currently the hottest and happening destination in the online world. While Facebook on its part is implementing new security measures to keep you safe online, the real responsibility lies...

New Delhi: Cyber crooks are on the prowl this financial year closing and are using phishing attacks and hoaxalerts to gain access to account details of individuals who have filed their Income Tax returns online, warn experts.
"It is the season of income tax returns. Many people file them online. Cyber...

New Delhi: The BJP today charged Congress with indulging in "cyber crime" over the issue of "theft" of its online identity and demanded a reply to the legal notice issued to the party more than a week ago.
"The Bharatiya Janata Party suspects that the Congress party has covertly negotiated with...

Washington: Fake security software was the No. 1 cybersecurity woe afflicting computer users in 2009, and Apple users lost some of their immunity to cybercrime as they stored more data online instead of on hard drives, according to the cybersecurity firm Symantec.
In a report released on Tuesday, Symantec noted...